On 28 June 2013, Bradley Walsh stated on This Morning that Law & Order: UK would return with an eighth series, commissioned to start filming in October 2013. In September 2013, broadcaster ITV confirmed that Law & Order: UK would return in 2014 with an eight episode series, and that Ben Bailey Smith had been cast as DS Joe Hawkins, replacing Paul Nicholls as DS Sam Casey.
This was the last series of Law & Order: UK to air, with broadcaster ITV and producer Kudos issuing a joint press release, on 3 June 2014, announcing that it would be "the last to be transmitted for the foreseeable future".
Cast Main Law Bradley Walsh as Senior Detective Sergeant Ronnie Brooks Ben Bailey Smith as Junior Detective Sergeant Joe Hawkins Paterson Joseph as Detective Inspector Wes Leyton (Episodes 1–7) Sharon Small as Detective Inspector Elisabeth Flynn (Episode 8)
Order Dominic Rowan as Senior Crown Prosecutor Jacob Thorne Georgia Taylor as Junior Crown Prosecutor Kate Barker Peter Davison as CPS Director Henry Sharpe
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